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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Greek layer of language
RTI
Letter naming Chart
Components of Reading Instruction
2. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
SBOE
Norm-Referenced Test
Trigraph
VV
3. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Norm-Referenced Test
Vr
Texas Education Code 28.06
Phonics
4. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
MSL
Standardized test
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Raw score
5. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Three Layers of Language
Anna Gillingham
6. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Phonics approach
Pre-English
Criterion-Referenced Test
7. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Linguistic Method
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Cedilla
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
8. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Progress Monitoring
Chall's Stage 1
Chall's Stage 0
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
9. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Norm-referenced tests
Criterion referenced tests
Percentile
Phonemic/ decodable words
10. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Raw score
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Auditory Processing
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
11. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
CTOPP
Direct Instruction
12. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
ADHD
Criterion-Referenced Test
Middle English
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
13. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Anna Gillingham
Visual Learners
Fluency
14. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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15. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Derivative
MSLE
Joe Torgesen
Morpheme
16. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
MSL
GORT
Mathew Effect
17. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Prefix
Auditory Processing
Samuel T. Orton
IDEA
18. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Universal Screening
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Simultaneous teaching
IDEA
19. Academic Language Therapy Association
Attention
ALTA
Frank Smith
Progress Monitoring
20. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Vowel
Affix
[-'le
21. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Auditory Learners
Impulsivity
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Phonics approach
22. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Achievement test
Syntax
Cognitive Assessment
Cedilla
23. English as a second language
Chall's Stage 5
Rate
ESL
Six basic types of syllables
24. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Phonemic Awareness
Reliability
Battery
Phonological Awareness
25. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Prefix
Profile
Phonology
Expressive language
26. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
WIATII
Linguistic Method
Profile
Matthew Effect
27. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Cedilla
Standard score
Semantics
Letter naming Chart
28. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Dyslexia
Ability
James Hinshelwood
Expressive language
29. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Grade equivalents
Grapheme
Sound Symbol Association
Direct Instruction
30. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Accent
Consonant Digraph
Anna Gillingham
Old English
31. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Breve
Reliability
Combination
Criterion-Referenced Test
32. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Cognition
Diphthong
Frank Smith
Prefix
33. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Fluency
Old English
Phonics
Breve
34. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Reliability
MSLE
RTI
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
35. Closed syllable
VC
Phonology
Fluency
Criterion referenced tests
36. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Vr
Anglo Saxon
Multi-Sensory Approach
Macron
37. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Open Syllable
Raw score
Suffix
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
38. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Syllable
Comprehension
Grade equivalents
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
39. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Percentile/ percentile rank
Diagnostic Teaching
Anna Gillingham
Middle English
40. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Mastery level
NICHD
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Anglo Saxon
41. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
WRAT
Suffix
Percentile
Analytic
42. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Diagnostic Teaching
Progress Monitoring
Funding
Impulsivity
43. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Quadrigraph
Orthography
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
44. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Norm-referenced tests
Universal Screening
Quadrigraph
Phonological Awareness
45. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Mastery level
Pre-English
Chall's Stage 5
Visual Learners
46. Open syllable
V >
Letter naming Chart
Standard Scores
Affix
47. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
Universal Screening
Prefix
Semantics
Accommodation
48. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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49. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Criterion-Referenced Test
Six basic types of syllables
Greek layer of language
50. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Adolf Kusmaul
Percentile/ percentile rank
Keith Stanovich
Linguistic Method